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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the Video space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Austin Johnsen
Senior Director, Corporate Development of Patreon
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About Patreon: Patreon is an online platform connecting musicians and other artists with their fan base.
Nikao Yang
Director, Global Business Solutions of TikTok
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About Opera Mediaworks, TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
David Lieber
Director, Privacy Policy Counsel of TikTok
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About TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
Tim Schaaff
Member of the Board of Directors of Sony
Timothy Schaaff joined Sony Corporation of America in 2005 in the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Software Development. In 2007 he was appointed President, Sony Media Software and Services, and in 2010 he assumed the role of President, Sony Network Entertainment. Schaaff is responsible for the development of Sony’s digital services businesses and infrastructure. He has global responsibility for strategy and business development related to network services, alignment of Sony-wide network services activities, and delivery of network services to all relevant Sony product platforms. Prior to joining Sony, Schaaff spent more than 14 years with Apple Computer, where he was responsible for development of a broad range of Apple’s media technologies including 2D- and 3D-graphics, audio and video platforms, print and digital imaging technologies, and real-time communications. He also led development of Apple’s QuickTime platform.
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About Intertrust: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Pete Wurman
Director, Sony AI America of Sony
Peter Wurman is the Director, Sony AI America
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About Acsibi Studios, Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Rajeev Mishra
Sr. Director Quality, Reliability, Safety, & Compliance of Magic Leap
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About Magic Leap: Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users to interact with digital devices in a completely visually cinematic way.
Christian Oestlien
Director, Product Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Shimrit Ben Yair
Senior Director of Product Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
T Jay Fowler
Director of Product Management, Music of YouTube
T. Jay Fowler is a product manager with experience at KPMG Consulting, Wired, Yahoo, Inc., and design consultancies. T. Jay Current holds the Vice President of Product and Engineering role at MOG.
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About Yahoo, YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Andy Berkheimer
Director of Engineering of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Will Aldrich
Director of Product Management, YouTube Premium of YouTube
Will joined Smule in January 2017. Previously, he was SVP of Product at SurveyMonkey from April 2011 to May 2016. Prior to that, he was VP of Product at TripIt, a Webby-award winning travel service that was acquired by Concur Technologies in January 2011. At TripIt, Will was responsible for product management, design and customer care. Prior to that, Will was Senior Director of Product at Yahoo!, responsible for the Profiles, Mash and Photos teams. Before Yahoo!, Will co-founded and ran product for vVault (now part of Biscom) and spent 3 years before that at CNET. Will received a BA in Foreign Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Prachi Gupta
Engineering Director of YouTube
Prachi Gupta is an engineering director at YouTube.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Pablo Paniagua
Director of Product Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Oona King
Global Director Diverse Marketing of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Sage Durain
Art Director of Bright Star Studios
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About Bright Star Studios, Ember Sword: Bright Star Studios is an international independent video games development studio working on next generation MMO experiences.
Gopa Kutty
Director of Analytics of GSN Games
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About GSN Games: GSN Games is a leading provider of cross-platform entertainment, including social casino games
Harold Vancol
Creative Director of Grab Games
Harold Vancol is a Creative Director at Grab Games.
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About Grab Games, Grab Games, Grab Games: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
Joshua Holley
Art Director of Grab Games
Joshua Holley is a Art Director at Grab Games.
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About Grab Games, Grab Games: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
Joe Hogue
Technical Director of Grab Games
Joe Hogue is a Technical Director at Grab Games.
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About Grab Games: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
Adrian Goh
Director, People Analytics of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Molly Mason Boulé
Development Director of Electronic Arts
Molly is currently the Vice-President of Content Production for Electronic Arts Worldwide Studios. Her team is located in five countries around the world touching EA’s product portfolio in the areas of CG / Animation, Sound, Motion Capture, Applied Research as well as Tools and Pipeline Engineering. Molly is also the current GM of EA Shanghai. Molly has been leading teams of Artists, Producers, Software Engineers, Designers and Management staff for the past 20 years in a variety of Entertainment Organizations. Her experience also includes evaluating and engaging companies for production and strategic partnership in China, India, Europe and South America. Prior to joining Electronic Arts, Molly was a Broadcast, Live Action, Visual Effects and Animation Producer for Film, Television, Web and Print at companies such as DreamWorks Animation, Radium Inc. and for the global advertising and marketing firm Grey NY. Molly was born and raised in California and now resides in Vancouver, Canada. Molly holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Business Administration from USC.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Denise Warren
Member of the Board of Directors of Electronic Arts
Denise Warren was named executive vice president of the Digital Products and Services Group in March 2013. As such, Warren oversees the operations, growth and development of The New York Times’s portfolio of digital products along with oversight of its subscriber relationships and digital subscription business. Previously Warren was general manager of NYTimes.com and senior vice president and chief advertising officer of the former New York Times Media Group, where she managed the daily operations of NYTimes.com, as well as other related digital and mobile products of The Times. In addition, she oversaw the advertising sales operation for all properties of The New York Times Media Group, which included print, digital and mobile products of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Warren was named chief advertising officer in 2005. In that year, she oversaw the print/digital integration of the advertising department’s sales staff, making The Times the first newspaper to do this. She also spearheaded the Times’s monetization efforts around unique product launches and investing in innovation, including its Idea Lab, which highlights innovation and collaboration between The Times and its advertising clients. In 2008, Warren added the role of general manager of NYTimes.com to her portfolio. In this position, she managed the business and technological operations for the largest individual newspaper Web site in the world. Under her direction, The Times launched a variety of new products including leading mobile and tablet apps, and it introduced a digital subscription model in 2011. Warren serves on the boards of The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the American Advertising Federation (AAF). She is a past president of New York Women in Communications and remains active in the organization. Warren joined The Times in 1988 as a financial analyst and has since served in a variety of strategic positions throughout the organization. She holds a B.S. and management degree from Tulane University and an M.B.A. degree in communications and media management from Fordham University. She lives with her family in Long Island.
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About : Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Luis Ubinas
Lead Director of the Board of Electronic Arts
Luis Ubinas served as President of the Ford Foundation from January 2008 to September 2013. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Ubinas spent 18 years with McKinsey & Company, where he held various positions, including Managing Director of the firm’s west coast media practice working with technology, telecommunications and media companies. Ubinas serves on the U.S. Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiation, the World Bank Advisory Council of Global Foundation Leaders, the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group of the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and the boards of the New York Public Library and the Collegiate School for Boys. He holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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About : Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Evan Denbaum
Sr. Director & Competitive Gaming Commissioner of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Tamara Greasby
Director & Data Science of The Trade Desk
Tammy Greasby is Director of Data Science at The Trade Desk where she and her team build scalable data science products to make the internet better. Despite having access to half a petabyte of new data every day (the platform sees about nine million queries every second!), they also spend a lot of time thinking about missing data problems. Tamara has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and in her free time, loves to trail run. Prior to The Trade Desk she has worked on related problems at Facebook, Snapchat, and Oracle Data Cloud.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Bennett Crumbling
Director – TV of The Trade Desk
Bennett Crumbling leads The Trade Desk’s strategy & business development within the $300B TV advertising ecosystem. Bennett is an angel investor in early stage companies. He is especially interested in data-centric companies that solve logical problems for consumers & knowledge workers inside of industries such as marketing & advertising, media, ecommerce & consumer services and real estate
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Vlad Kachur
Co-Founder, Director of Promolta
Vlad Kachur create strong marketing directions to help musicians be seen and establish new fans. Promolta’s co-founder believes every musician deserves to be recognized for his or her talent and hardwork.
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About Promolta: A self service advertising platform to promote videos in targeted blogs, websites, mobile apps, games and social networks.
Sharon Franke
Director Kitchen Appliances and Technology of Hearst Communications
Sharon tests every piece of cooking equipment that could possibly find its way into the American kitchen. Everything from a humble wooden spoon to pots and pans to coffeemakers, toasters, and mixers to ranges and refrigerators falls under her scrutiny. Her background: Before joining GHI, she was a chef in restaurants in the World Trade Center.
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About Good Housekeeping, Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses
Ben DeJarnette
Local Director of WhereBy.Us
Entrepreneurial Journalism Community Manager at LION: Local Independent Online News Publishers.
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About LION: Local Independent Online News Publishers, WhereBy.Us: A platform that enables creators to build a media business for their community.
Jules Malin
Director, Data Science & Analytics of GoPro
Jules Malin is a manager of product analytics and data science at GoPro, where he leads a team responsible for discovering product and behavioral insights from GoPro’s growing family and ecosystem of smart devices and driving product and user experience improvements, including influencing and refining data pipelines in Hadoop/Spark and developing scalable machine learning data products, metrics, and visualizations that produce actionable insights. Previously, Jules worked in product management and analytics engineering at Intel and Shutterfly. He holds a master’s degree in predictive analytics from Northwestern University.
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About GoPro, University of San Diego: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Abe Kislevitz
Senior Creative Director of GoPro
Abe Kislevitz is Senior Creative Director at GoPro where he’s worked in media production for the past 8+ years. He’s a media creator, tech geek, and an outdoor enthusiast. He spends his weekends in the mountains skiing or in the ocean surfing creating content for his social channels along the way.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Dan Larsen
Director of Software Engineering of GoPro
Dan Larsen is the Director of Software Engineering at GoPro.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Ulysses Davalos
Director, Advertising Monetization of Pluto TV
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About Pluto TV, Pluto TV: Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
Anthony Larkin
Director, Product Marketing of Akamai Technologies
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Scott Forrey
Senior Director, Sales & Marketing Data Science of Akamai Technologies
Scott Forrey is the Senior Director, Sales & Marketing Data Science at Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Bryan Ngo
Director of Sales Operations of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Jennifer Aden
Director of Sales of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Zack Boone
Senior Director, Accounts and Integrated Marketing of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Mark Skaggs
Director of Moonfrog Labs
Mark Skaggs is an award-winning game developer known for his work creating the worldwide phenomena “FarmVille” and “CityVille” for Zynga. With a career spanning more than 17 years, three AIAS awards, four console transitions, and a track record of creating games that have sold more than 16 million copies at retail, Mark is also known for creating multi-million selling RTS games such as “Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2,” “Command and Conquer: Generals” and “Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth”. Mark joined Zynga in 2008 and served as Senior Vice President of Product Development, leading the charge to create new and interesting games in the social gaming space. He is now the newest Director and Board Member at Moonfrog Labs.
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About : Moonfrog Labs is an independent game studio focusing on Board and Social Card Games.
Kasumi Yogi
Director Of Marketing And Business Development of Games Done Quick
Kasumi Yogi is Director of Communications & Event Manager at Games Done Quick.
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About Games Done Quick: Games Done Quick is a charity video game marathon.
Mike Uyama
Co-Founder & Event Director of Games Done Quick
Mike Uyama is Co-Founder & Event Director at Games Done Quick.
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About Consultant, Games Done Quick: Games Done Quick is a charity video game marathon.
Matt Merkle
Director of Operations of Games Done Quick
Matt Merkle is Director of Operations at Games Done Quick.
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About Games Done Quick: Games Done Quick is a charity video game marathon.
Christian Talmage
Creative Director of Boom.tv
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About Boom.tv: BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs.
Anthony Turner
Director of Logistics of Freevi
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About Freevi: FlightDeck 3D delivers quality 3D viewing without the use of glasses.
Inga Bereza
Business Development Director of Musical.ly
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About Musical.ly: Musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing, and discovering short videos.
Martin Christien
Director of Content Services of Zeality Inc.
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About Zeality Inc.: Zeality Inc. is the leading provider of innovative cloud solutions for delivering immersive media content across all connected devices.
Craig Hughes
Corporate Development Director of Unruly
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About Unruly, Unruly: Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
Shane Small
Executive Creative Director of eko
As Executive Creative Director at Interlude, Shane wrote and created award-winning projects for artists and brands such as CeeLo Green and CocaCola, and is currently working on Interlude’s first VR project, set to launch in 2016. Shane’s background highlights his passion for different and immersive content; Exploding Kittens, which he created and produced, is the game with the highest number of Kickstarter backers to date. At Xbox Entertainment Studios, he worked on original interactive Movies and TV shows for the Xbox gaming console. Prior to that, amongst other things, he co-founded Edoc Laundry, the first interactive clothing brand, where hidden messages and codes in the clothing unlocked murder mystery video content online, and Funtini, where he developed top mobile hits for Marvel & Disney.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Yan Li
Director Of Engineering of Conviva
Yan is an Engineering Manager at Conviva, where she has been working on various projects in the area of Internet video streaming, and has built several products used by content publishers and ecosystem partners to monitor and optimize the experience of millions of end viewers. Yan holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut.
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Yonghui Ma
Director of Product Management and Marketing of Vobile
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About Vobile: Vobile offers complete solutions to protect, measure, and monetize the best movies and TV content across the Internet and on all screens.
Andrea Toyias
Casting & Voice Over Director of Blizzard Entertainment
Andrea Toyias has been working with video game voice work since first starting in the Audio department at Havas Interactive in 2000. She began her career as a Dialogue Editor but quickly transitioned to in-house Recording Engineer upon the merger of Vivendi Universal Games with Havas. It was during the many years spent as a recording engineer, working with a multitude of actors and directors that Andrea fell in love with the voice acting process. She has spent the last 15 years savoring, studying, and exploring all the intricacies of the dialogue process. In 2008, she began working at Blizzard Entertainment as the Casting and Voice Director. As well as overseeing the Voice over department, she casts and directs every single voice that appears in Blizzard’s games. Andrea continues to explore new and exciting ways of bringing characters to life and prefers to treat the recording booth as an endless stage of possibility, rather than a room, a mic and four padded walls.
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About Blizzard Entertainment: Blizzard Entertainment develops and publishes gaming software and computer games such as World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and StarCraft.
Christopher Alvares
Director of Product & Engineering of PMG
Chris Alvares loves building products, and collaborating with brands and engineers to create a mix of data and art. As the senior product and innovation lead at PMG, Chris has been instrumental in PMG’s growth into the digital industry’s leader in data- and technology-driven breakthroughs. His work has been leveraged by brands like Apple, J.Crew, and Sephora to drive team and workflow efficiencies, deeper data insights, and material business results. Chris is also a rarity among the engineering world he resides in, in that he holds a degree in business administration, with a focus on marketing.
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About PMG: PMG is a digital agency that uses strategy, creative, media, and insights to deliver against its mantra of Digital Made for Humans™.
Tom Wasserman
Managing Director of Constellation Technology Ventures
Mr. Wasserman is a Managing Director of HPS. At HPS, Mr. Wasserman focuses primarily on investments in communications, IT and media. Prior to joining HPS in 2008, Mr. Wasserman was a Managing Director with Bear Stearns. He currently serves as chairman of the board for Bridgevine, Inc. and previously held the same role for GamerDNA Media. Additionally, Mr. Wasserman is currently an active member of the boards of Zakiris (a joint venture with Cirque du Soleil), Hibernia Atlantic, OnePhone AB, LiveGamer, Bridgevine and MTM Technologies. Previously, Mr. Wasserman served as a board member or observer for SAVVIS, Origin Digital, the Gospel Music Channel and Vivid Logic, each of which was successfully exited. Previously, Mr. Wasserman worked in the Corporate Development group at 360Networks, a global telecommunications service provider. Mr. Wasserman began his career as an investment banking analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and also served as an associate with the private equity fund, Charterhouse Group International. Mr. Wasserman received a BA in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, graduating with distinction.
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About Altimar Acquisition Corporation, Constellation Technology Ventures: Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Exelon Corporation
Scott Dupcak
Managing Director of Constellation Technology Ventures
Scott leads Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture capital investing arm of Exelon Corp, overseeing the CTV investing strategy the management of the CTV portfolio and the commercialization of new energy technologies within Exelon. Prior to working with CTV, Scott was part of the Strategic Systems and Business Operations group where he led a team responsible for market data management, IT governance, and integration projects. He worked within the Constellation wholesale commercial organization prior to that, holding several different jobs. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Fairfield University and an MBA from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
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About Constellation Technology Ventures: Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of Exelon Corporation
Shanna Jade
Director of Brand Strategy of Stem Disintermedia
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About Stem Disintermedia, Stem Disintermedia: Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.
Dan Fessler
Chief Visual Officer & Art Director of Manticore Games
Dan Fessler is the Chief Visual Officer and Art Director at Manticore Games.
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About Manticore Games: Manticore Games develops Core, a platform to build, share, and play online games.
Brian Kealer
Sr. Director, Ad Monetization & Product of Glu Mobile
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About Glu Mobile: Glu Mobile is a technology platform developing entertainment-focused freemium games for smartphones and tablet devices.
Andrew Lacy
Co-Founder and Director of Azarus
At Zaptravel, reinventing travel search through semantics, content and a commitment to beautiful products. Andrew is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor to startup companies. He is currently based in Europe but commute frequently to the Silicon Valley. He is presently working on Zaptravel, a disruptive personalization travel meta-search business. Zaptravel help people who don’t know when or where they want to go to great travel deals that match their interests and the experiences they want to have. Previously, he has been a Senior Vice-President at the Walt Disney Company responsible for operating their mobile development studios and outsourced development across the world and developing many transformational mobile products for the Group. He was a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 6 years where he consulted clients on technological solution to big data and collaboration challenges and investment and operational issues in the airline industry. Andrew has Law and Economic degrees from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from Stanford Business School. Some special skills: social gaming & mobile monetization, iOS & Android mobile launch, marketing, monetization strategies, building businesses around cloud/redis.
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About Azarus, Zaptravel: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Ian Crossland
Director of Minds
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About Minds: Minds is a crypto social network and secure messaging app that rewards users with crypto for their efforts online.
Kevin Baik
PUBG Universe Art Director of PUBG Corporation
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About PUBG Corporation: PUBG operates as an online game developer and publisher.
Larraine Segil
Board Of Director of Frontier Communications
Larraine D. Segil is CEO of Larraine Segil Inc., consulting with companies on global strategy, management and alliances. Since 1991, she has been a senior research fellow at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a 25-year member of the Board of Advisors of the Price Center for Entrepreneurship at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and an Adjunct Professor of the Southwestern School of Law and a member of its Board of Trustees. Ms. Segil presented a two-day Executive Education program on Strategic Alliances at Caltech for 24 years. She is partner emeritus at Vantage Partners, LLC., a strategic alliances and conflict resolution firm, where she was a partner and member of the Board. Ms. Segil was a partner/co-founder of The Lared Group, a consulting firm on strategic alliances, until its acquisition by Vantage Partners in 2003. She serves on the International Advisory Board of APCO Worldwide, the Advisory Board of Kandela Inc., and the Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Southern California. Ms. Segil served on the World Health Organization Tropical Diseases SAAG in Geneva. Ms. Segil is a member of The Committee of 200, an organization of the world’s most successful women CEOs, past Chair of the C200 Foundation, and past Vice Chair of the C200 Governing Board. She has published six books. She received B.A. & B.A. Honors (master’s equivalent) from The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, a J.D. from Southwestern School of Law, and an M.B.A. from the PKE Program of Pepperdine University, Los Angeles.
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About : Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.
Peter Bynoe
Board Of Director of Frontier Communications
Peter C.B. Bynoe is a Managing Director of Equity Group Investments, a private investment fund. Before this, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Rewards Network, Inc., a merchant cash advance and marketing services company, and in multiple capacities, including as a partner, with Loop Capital Markets LLP, an investment bank. Mr. Bynoe has been associated with the international law firm DLA Piper US LLP since March 1995, most recently as Senior Counsel. He is also Chairman of Telemat Ltd., a business consulting firm he founded in 1982. Mr. Bynoe received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s from Harvard Business School, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Mr. Bynoe is a Director of the Covanta Holding Corporation and Real Industry, Inc.
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About Equity Group Investments: Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.
Howard Schrott
Board Of Director of Frontier Communications
Howard L. Schrott is a Principal in Schrott Consulting, a management consulting firm servicing broadcasting, telecommunications and technology companies. Prior to founding Schrott Consulting in 2006, he was Chief Financial Officer of the Liberty Corporation, a television broadcaster (2001-February 2006). Prior to joining Liberty, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Wink Communications (now a subsidiary of OpenTV Corp.), an interactive television company. For eight years he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Emmis Communications Corp., an owner and operator of radio and television stations and magazines. Previously, Mr. Schrott was a Vice President in the media-lending group at First Union National Bank (now Wells Fargo). He practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Indianapolis, Indiana, specializing in matters before the Federal Communications Commission and media-related business issues. He holds a B.S. from Butler University and a J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law. Mr. Schrott also serves as a Trustee of Butler University and the Indiana Historical Society.
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About : Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.
Rishi Rasane
Director & Producer of ADVIDS
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About ADVIDS: ADVIDS is an online platform and concierge service to produce web videos.
Chris Parker
Game Director of Obsidian Entertainment
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About : Obsidian Entertainment is an American role-playing video game.
Mike Judge
Co-creator, Executive Producer, Writer and Director HBO “Silicon Valley” of HBO
Mike Judge was born in 1962 in Ecuador, but raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and attended University of California at San Diego where he earned a degree in physics. He worked as an engineer and played bass professionally before MTV picked up his 1992 animated short, FROG BASEBALL. MTV decided to spin off BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD into a show of its own in the 1990’s, with Judge doing the voices of both characters as well as others. His next project was KING OF THE HILL for FOX TV. Judge expanded into writing and directing his own live-action films, OFFICE SPACE, IDIOCRACY and EXTRACT. He’s done voices for SOUTH PARK, FAMILY GUY, AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE, and acted in Robert Rodriguez’s SPY KIDS movies. In 2012, Mike resurrected BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD with twelve new shows for MTV. Currently, Judge is a co-creator, executive producer, writer and director for the Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated comedy series, SILICON VALLEY, which debuted its fifth season in April.
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About HBO: HBO is a television company that offers two 24-hour premium TV services, HBO and Cinemax.
Lee Turvey
Global Sales Director of Frame.io
Lee Turvey is the global sales director of Frame.io.
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About Frame.io: Frame.io is a cloud-based video collaboration platform that allows users to upload source media and assets into private workspaces.
Brett Rush
Director of Customer Experience of Frame.io
Brett Rush is the Director of Customer Experience at Frame.io.
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About Frame.io: Frame.io is a cloud-based video collaboration platform that allows users to upload source media and assets into private workspaces.
Damon Iannuzzelli
Co Founder/Art Director of Proletariat
Damon Iannuzzelli joined Proletariat as Co Founder/Art Director in 2012.
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
Michael Elhadad
R&D Director and Co-Founder of Dalet
Michael Elhadad works as R and D Director and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Amy Wass
Director of Customer Success of LogRocket
Amy Wass is the director of customer success at LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
Brian Neville-O’Neill
Director of Content of LogRocket
Brian Neville-O’Neill is the director of content at LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
Eric Boyd
Director of Product of JW Player
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
William Russell
Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Piksel
William Russell has served as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at Piksel since June 2012. Bill also holds the positions of Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at PROS Holdings, Inc., a leader in pricing and revenue management software. Previously, Bill was a Member of the Board of Directors at Saba Software, Inc., a provider of people-centric enterprise solutions. Bill was a Member of the Audit and Compensation Committees of Saba Software’s board. Bill lends his broad knowledge of large-scale software operations, including sales, marketing, development, finance, strategic planning and leadership, to KIT digital. Bill served in a number of senior-level executive management roles in his 23 years at Hewlett-Packard, including Vice President and General Manager of the multi-billion dollar Enterprise Systems Group and its Software Solutions Group. Bill holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Edinburgh University.
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About : Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Sandra Rand
Director of Marketing of OrionCKB (Acquired)
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About OrionCKB (Acquired), OrionCKB (Acquired): OrionCKB focuses exclusively on direct response, customer acquisition, and increasing revenue from Facebook, search & other social channels.
Britt Ivy
Director of Operations of Prism Skylabs
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About Prism Skylabs: Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms video cameras into powerful business tools.
Amanda Toney
Managing Director of Stage 32
As Managing Director for Stage 32, Amanda oversees operations and business development for the global business. She has curated over 1,200 hours of online education created exclusively for Stage 32, and works with hundreds of entertainment industry executives from around the world to serve as educators and mentors. She has spearheaded partnerships with such prestigious organizations as the Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film, American Film Market, SXSW, Austin Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Hollyshorts Film Festival, PGA, WGA and DGA, as well as brands such as AT&T, Peerspace, Pond5, Mandy, Bondit Media Capital and her personal favorite partnership, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, which is the official vodka of Stage 32. As a producer, Amanda has worked on the psychological thriller What Lies Ahead starring Rumer Willis and Emma Dumont; Chick Fight, starring Malin Akerman, Alec Baldwin and Bella Thorne, Metaphorms, a Hungarian film, which premiered at the Raindance Film Festival and Dolphin Girl, an entire Stage 32 production in conjunction with the St. Petersburg Film Commission. She recently sold an unscripted show to a major US network . Amanda has spoken all over the world at the Cannes Film Festival (France), Hollyshorts Film Festival (US), Raindance Film Festival (UK), Hamburg Film Fest (Germany), Trinidad & Tobago Film Commission (Trinidad), Fest Festival (Portugal) and Harvard (US) on the business of the entertainment industry.
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About Stage 32: Stage 32 is the world’s largest online platform connecting and educating the global entertainment industry.
Paul Sluberski
Senior Director of brand partnerships of SpotX
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About SpotX: SpotX is a video advertising platform that enables publishers to monetize content across desktop, mobile, and connected TV devices.
Gar Richlin
Member of the Board of Directors of Videology
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About PrescribeWellness: Videology is an online video advertising platform, enables advertisers, agencies and publishers to connect brands with targeted audiences.
Gordon Simmons
Senior Director, Product Management of Looxcie
Gordon Simmons is a chief technology officer at [Itsoyu](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/itsoyu). Previously, he was a senior director of product development at Plantronics and Looxcie. During the course of his career, he worked as a director at companies such as Jawbone, Polycom, and Harman International Industries.
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About Looxcie: The Looxcie HD allows for mobile video sharing in high definition and instant sharing of live broadcasts with friends as experiences
Joshua F. Finer
Chief Growth Officer, Director of Operations & Founding Partner of LBRY
Joshua F. Finer is the Founding Partner at Odysee.
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About Finer Technologies, LBRY, Odysee, Veterinary Payments: LBRY, a content sharing and publishing platform that is decentralized and owned by its users
Daniel Sussman
Project Director of Harmonix Music Systems
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About Harmonix Music Systems: Harmonix Music Systems is a videogame development company that offers Beatles and Rock Band music games in North America and more.
James Ruben
Director Of Product of Intermedia Labs
James Ruben is the Founder and CEO of Hellosaurus. Currently leads all product management, ideation, and development for Intermedia Labs/HQ Trivia. He was also recently named to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 List for his work in consumer technology. In his time as Director of Product, James has helped grow HQ Trivia from a prototype to an international phenomenon played by tens of millions. He has also launched the company’s newest titles, HQ Sports and HQ Words. Prior to joining HQ, James was a Product Manager at Google and graduated with a degree in Economics and Computer Science from Harvard University.
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About Hellosaurus, Intermedia Labs: Intermedia Labs is a consumer-based video technology firm inventing the future of television.
Guy Finley
Executive Director of Media & Entertainment Services Alliance – MESA
Guy started his career in the entertainment industry as a successful performer and producer, making music with industry giants such as Phil Ramone, Elliott Scheiner, and Dave Grusin, among others. His New York City based group was signed to Larry Rosen’s N2K Encoded Music, the first record company to distribute music via digital downloads. He joined the home entertainment industry as President of LFA, Inc., providing home video brand and business consulting services for a worldwide clientele. His firm represented JVC in North America, licensing the loading and duplication of VHS videocassettes bearing the VHS Logo Trademark. In 2005 he joined the Content Delivery and Security Association (then IRMA, International Recording Media Association) where he pioneered the CDSA Daily News Portal and co-chaired the accountability sub-committee of the EPCglobal Item Level Tagging Public Policy Steering Committee. CDSA is currently managed by MESA. In 2008 he founded MESA as a coalition of service providers to the Hollywood studios, independent content holders, video game publishers, software publishers and music labels. Through MESA’s media, events, special interest groups and association management, MESA facilitates ongoing discussions about collaboration and innovation in the entertainment industry along four key verticals: physical and digital supply chain, content security, information technology and 2nd screen technologies. With over 100 member companies and branches in the U.S. and Europe, MESA is a leading voice in the global media & entertainment industry.
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About Media & Entertainment Services Alliance – MESA: Building efficiencies in the creation, production and distribution of physical and digital media and entertainment.
Derek Harrar
Member of the Board of Directors of Brightcove
Derek Harrar is a Member of the Board of Directors at YuMe since October 2015 and Brightcove since January 2014. Derek previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Video and Entertainment Services at Comcast Corporation. In this position, Derek was responsible for all aspects of Comcast’s $19 billion flagship video business, including basic and digital cable, HD and DVR services, as well as management of Video On Demand for Comcast’s 24 million video customers. Previously, Derek served as Vice President of Video Product Management for Comcast. Before that, Derek was the Lead Product Manager for Comcast’s portfolio of set-top boxes as Vice President of Subscriber Equipment. Derek joined Comcast in 2004 as Vice President of Business Development. Since leaving Comcast, Derek advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on technology, media and telecom investing and operating strategies. Prior to Comcast, Derek served as Co-Founder of Silicon Valley startup MegaSense and served as its Vice President of Business Development. Derek’s career began with eight years as an Investment Banker, primarily with Morgan Stanley in Silicon Valley and New York. Derek advised clients such as HP, KKR, @Home, Grupo Televisa, LSI Logic and VeriSign on 45 announced transactions aggregating over $60 billion. Derek holds a B.S. with Special Attainments in Commerce from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. Derek resides in Philadelphia with his wife and four daughters.
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About : Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Gary Haroian
Member of the Board of Directors of Brightcove
Gary Haroian is a software industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience leading software and services companies. Gary’s executive experience includes serving as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer at Bowstreet, a provider of software application tools; Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Concord Communications, a network management software company; and Chief Financial Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer at Stratus Computer, a provider of continuous availability software and service. Earlier in his career Gary was a CPA at Arthur Andersen. Gary serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees of EnerNOC’s Board of Directors. In addition to his position on EnerNOC’s Board of Directors, Gary currently serves as a director of Aspen Technology and Brightcove, and has previously served as a director of A123 Systems, Network Engines, Unica Corporation, Phase Forward, Authorize.Net Holdings, and Embarcadero Technologies. Gary holds a BS in Economics and Accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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About : Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Taylor McDermott
Director of Player Experience of United in Gaming
Taylor McDermott currently works as Board member of United in Gaming. He is also a Partner at Nationwide Creative Entertainment and at Gas Agency, LLC.
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About United in Gaming: United in Gaming is a esports and gaming platform for gamers of all levels and experience, subscription based and freemium model.
Dwight Ackerman
Senior Director of IT Architecture of Nintendo
Dwight Ackerman is Senior Director of IT Architecture at Nintendo.
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About Nintendo: Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company that develops game consoles.
Dave Tempero
IT Sr Director of Infrastructure and Operations of Nintendo
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About Nintendo: Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company that develops game consoles.
Todd Bruce
Senior IT Director of Nintendo
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About Nintendo, Nintendo: Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company that develops game consoles.
Bill Trinen
Director, Product Marketing Manager of Nintendo
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About Nintendo: Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company that develops game consoles.
Joon Huh
Director of IT Solutions of Nintendo
Joon Huh is Director of IT Solutions at Nintendo.
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About Nintendo: Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company that develops game consoles.
Preston Phillips
Director of Marketing and Communications of Replay Technologies
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About Blink Technologies, FieldHouse Marketing, Replay Technologies: Replay Technologies Inc. develops video 3D reconstruction technologies.
Dvir Besserglick
Chief Engineer & R&D Director of Replay Technologies
Dvir is a top notch engineer and scientist. Most of his career Dvir took management roles in the defense industry designing most complex electro-optical projects. Dvir leads the research and development team in Replay Technologies.
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About Replay Technologies: Replay Technologies Inc. develops video 3D reconstruction technologies.
Daniel Harvith
Director of Business Development of Nerd Street Gamers
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About Nerd Street Gamers: Nerd Street Gamers is a national network of eSports facilities and events dedicated to power competitive opportunities for gamers.
Gregory Strompolos
Director of Business Development of YouNow
Gregory Strompolos is the Director of Business Development at YouNow, a live social network that enables audiences and performers to connect in real time. The interactive entertainment platform has over 100 million user sessions a month and live-streams 50,000 hours of new video content every day. Gregory heads up the LA office for YouNow, where he works with MCNs, agencies and management companies to help talent strengthen bonds with their fans and generate revenue from broadcasting through its partner program. Previously, Gregory was one of the founding members of Fullscreen, a global youth media company that develops online creators and programs for multi-platform entertainment experiences. Gregory was a co-creator of Fullscreen’s first brand solutions service business called Channel Plus. Channel Plus powers over 60 of the world’s largest brands and media companies’ YouTube channels with industry-leading technology and custom-tailored strategy built to maximize owned, earned, and paid view strategies. Some clients consist of NBCU, GE, Turner Entertainment, Mattel, and Toyota. At Fullscreen, Gregory also lead the expansion of Fullscreen’s international networks into Brazil, France, Japan, Russia, and Canada as the Director of International Business Development. Before Fullscreen, Gregory ran Sales and Marketing for the international trade intelligence startup Import Genius. Gregory is a polyglot and chess enthusiast. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Economics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently resides in Santa Monica, California.
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About YouNow: YouNow is the world’s first live social network, empowering users to broadcast themselves from anywhere in real time.
Candice Reeves
Trust & Safety Director of YouNow
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About YouNow: YouNow is the world’s first live social network, empowering users to broadcast themselves from anywhere in real time.
Leonard Sherman
Board of Director of Interwise
Len Sherman brings over thirty years of business experience and academic research on growth strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship to Columbia Business School. At CBS, Professor Sherman teaches “Integrated Marketing Strategy” and “Entrepreneurship in Large Enterprises to MBA and EMBA students, earning the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Dr. Sherman was a Senior Partner at Accenture, where he served in a variety of positions including President of two Business Process Outsourcing units: Accenture Procurement Solutions and Accenture Learning. At Accenture, he also served as a founding General Partner of Accenture Technology Ventures, where he led Accenture’s investment activities in Supply Chain Management, Procurement and eLearning. He sat on the Boards of Directors of five technology-based firms in the procurement, supply chain and eLearning domains. Prior to these positions Dr. Sherman also led Accenture’s Global Strategic Services Practice covering client services in the Automotive & Industrial Equipment, Transportation & Travel Services, Food & Consumer Package Goods, Retail and Pharmaceuticals/Medical Products industries. Dr. Sherman joined Accenture in 1995 from J. D. Power and Associates where he had been managing partner of the firm’s management consulting practice and responsible for European business operations. Prior to that, he was a partner with Booz, Allen & Hamilton with responsibility for its U.S. automotive practice. Prior to joining Columbia, Professor Sherman taught “Innovation and Enterprise Growth” in Northeastern University’s MBA program. He has published and presented widely on automotive marketing and distribution strategy, customer satisfaction measurement and effective approaches to corporate education. Since joining CBS, Sherman has authored case studies in the automotive, retail, consumer packaged goods and hard goods industries. His book on growth strategy – If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth – will be published in January, 2017 by Columbia University Press. Dr. Sherman has a BS in aeronautical engineering, a MS in transportation systems and a Ph.D. in transportation economics, all from M.I.T.
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About : Interwise, a software-based company, offers AT&T Connect, an IP software that enables voice, web, and video conferencing.
Brent Nieder
Director of Product Management of GoCanvas
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About GoCanvas: GoCanvas helps organizations automate their business processes, eliminate paperwork and collect and share information via mobile devices.
Travis Kuhl
Director of Engineering & Technology of Team Coco Digital
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About Elwood Technology, LLC, Team Coco Digital: Team Coco Digital is an online streaming platform that provides episodes, event information, and video clips related to the Conan talk show.
Kai Hasson
Co-Founder and Creative Director of Portal A
Kai Hasson is the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Portal A, an award-winning digital studio that creates Branded and Original entertainment for a new generation. Hasson is responsible for leading Portal A’s creative output and creative team of writers and directors, from concept ideation to direction to post-production. In addition to his role as Creative Director, Hasson often directs Portal A’s biggest and most influential projects, including co-creating White Collar Brawler, which started as a digital series and was later brought to TV with multiple seasons on the Esquire Network, and YouTube Rewind, which has been viewed 100 million times annually for the past 4 years. Before Portal A, Hasson worked for Current TV in San Francisco. Portal A is independent, with a team of 50 based in its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Portal A works with top global brands such as Clorox, YouTube, Amazon, Google, and Lenovo and develops breakthrough original programming for partners like YouTube Red, Disney Digital, and Hearst. With over one billion views across its work, Portal A was recently named digital studio of the year by Cynopsis and recognized as an industry leading content studio by Digiday and The Drum. Kai grew up in Berkeley, CA and is an alumnus of Yale University.
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About Portal A: Portal A develop, produce, and distribute video built for conversation
